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Pompeii (deserted settlement)

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Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Scope Note: Italy, Campania, Napoli province

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

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MA L/R trips 1960, 1960

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/WDTR/3/2/39
Scope and Contents In 1960 Lord Taylour visits towns, villages and cities in Austria, Italy, Greece, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany and Belgium, including locations like Florence, Pompeii, Kalavryta, Radimlja, Oberammergau and Bruges. This file has a focus on religion and Roman material culture, with images of churches and cathedrals, a play on the life of Jesus in Oberammergau and medieval Christian artwork; and also views of ancient remains from Pompeii and Roman architecture in various locations....
Dates: 1960
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Notebook XA, April 1892

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/JHMN/1/4
Scope and Contents Inscribed on the flyleaf, 'J. Hen. Middleton, E. Coll. Regal. Soc.' and a later addition, 'Grand Hotel - Athens April 1892'' and 'Notebook XA'. The notebook consists of Middleton's notes on classical architecture and topography in Athens during the Spring of 1892. In particular his focus is upon the monuments on the acropolis of Athens: Propylaea, Stoa of Attalus, the Parthenon, the Erechtheum, the Asklpeion, the theatre of Dionysius, the Acropolis walls. Also a bridge...
Dates: April 1892
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PG L/R out 1967 1-50, 1967

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/WDTR/3/2/46
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This file, from 1967, documents Lord Taylour's travels in Germany, Italy and Greece, highlighting locations such as Mainz, Brescia, Verona, Padua, Baiae, Puzzuoli and Pompeii. Incorporating slides of ancient Roman and Greek architectural remains in Baiae, Verona, Puzzuoli and Pompeii, this file also illustrates views inside and outside cathedrals, together with clock towers, palaces, public statues and street scenes.

Dates: 1967
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PR L/R 1967 51-94, 1967 - 1970

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/WDTR/3/2/47
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1967's trips see Lord Taylour travel through Italy and Greece, featuring a range of sites including Pompeii, Benevento, Metsovon, the Perama Caves, Meteora, Delphi and St Aubyn's, Ireland. This file comprises a range of ancient Greek and Roman monumental sites, as well as views of the Pindus range, local costume and village lads in Metsovon, picnic groups and a party of aristocrats at St Aubyn's, an image of Lord Taylour included.

Dates: 1967 - 1970
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Untitled [Pompeii and Pelops Aegean Cruise], 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/3437/AJBW/3/6
Scope and Contents The album begins with a trip to Pompei, presumably whilst Wace was resident at the British School at Rome during the autumn. It is followed, after 4 blank leaves, with photographs from the Pelops Aegean Cruise photographs. Images of achaeological sites at Delphi, Knossos, Rhodes, Troy, Priene, Delos and Palaekastro. All the photographs are titled in pencil on the cardboard mount by AJBW. 29 photographic prints, 19 empty apertures of which only 3 are titled by AJBW, i.e. 3 prints...
Dates: 1903